An ign Ships, in each Year from 1776, Total Foreign85,800 16 14,630,200 21 19,072,3001817,531,100* English F trade incl57,731 6 4,138,295 13 9,916,760 1410,583,628 1 852,670 24,670 Dutch.....51,330 3 2,938,530 2 2,417,200 4 4,096,800 French ..84,000 2 1,540,670 ... Imperial Tuscan Portugueze. American $3,200 6 1,538,400 7 1,974,130 7 1,438,270 ... Spanish ... 3 400 2 578,930 2 289,470 1 17,460 I. NOTE ON THE GENERAL SPIRIT AND CHARACTER OF THE CHINESE LAWS. II. EXTRACT FROM AN ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN NEGOTIATIONS AT CANTON, IN 1806. III. ADDITIONS TO NOTE ON THE BRITISH FACTORY AND LATE EMBASSY. IV. REMARKS ON A RECENT DISPUTE BETWEEN THE AMERICANS AND THE CHINESE. I. NOTE ON THE GENERAL Spirit and Character of the Chinese Laws. See page 43. MR. GIBBON has remarked, that "The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history;" but the form in which this instruction is conveyed is certainly not very attractive; and it must be confessed that the Chinese Code, like those of other nations, is in some degree liable to this objection.-The Author is, however, confident, that the Reader will peruse the following extract from the profound and ingenious remarks upon that Code, of the Edinburgh Review for August 1810, with considerable interest. Although the Author generally concurs in the sen timents of the Reviewer, he feels himself bound to remark, in justice to the Chinese, that, in his opinion, the frequency of corporal punishments, the proneness to corruption of the magistrates, and the want of a sense of honor among the people, have been considerably over-stated; though it cannot be denied that the charge is, to a certain degree, well founded. On the first point it may be sufficient to remark, in the words of another Reviewer, that "the common |